Also in 1867, Manet painted The Execution of Emperor Maximilian, made as soon as the news of the emperor's death reached Paris, just as Manet himself felt he had been "assassinated" by the critics, and, like Maximilian, had dignity under fire.
In 1872, he showed Battle Between the Kearsage and the Alabama at the Salon, a naval battle that took place off the coast of Cherbourg in 1862 between two American ships. He tried, in fact, to show at least two or three paintings at each Salon.
In 1875, he showed Argenteuil at the Salon, and this work also caused a scandal. Claude Monet had painted a very similar scene as this work, and Manet's canvas was seen as trivial, the colors extreme and the background primitive. In 1877, he painted Nana, a light-hearted view of female vanity made two years before the novel of the same name by Manet's good friend, Emile Zola. Manet cultivated many long-standing relationships during his lifetime, and apart from Zola, he was friends with the poet Charles Baudelaire and the poet Stephane Mallarme, whose portrait he painted in 1876.
Manet continued to exhibit for the rest of his life, and his A Bar at the Folies Bergeres, shown at the 1882 Salon, is considered his last great triumph. He died on April 20, 1883. He was buried at Passy.
There is a huge database of Manet images at http://www.cityvu.com/ENGLISH/MANELST1.H...
- Nick Burton
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